A $4.7 million project at the middle school will expand the cafeteria and renovate the kitchen, add a media center and a new entrance and turn the former library into four classrooms.

The project also includes spending $1.9 million for bus corrals at the high school and elementary school and early childhood center, renovating a parking lot in front of the middle school and adding faculty parking at the early childhood center.

The board also approved $862,800 to add a large group instruction/music room to the elementary school. Superintendent Linda Brewer said the addition would make it possible for Derry Township special education students now educated at Capital Area Intermediate Unit facilities to return to their home district, a transfer expected to save the district $100,000 a year.

The board turned down spending $94,000 for more parking at the high school. The lot would have compensated in part for spaces being lost because of the bus corral.

Derry Township supervisors Tuesday approved the school district's plans for the projects. Most of the work is to be done by the start of the 2010-11 school year in the fall. The elementary project will take until December and converting the library into classrooms until July 2011, said Ed Consalo, district director of buildings and grounds.

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